desamparado
[d̪esãmpaˈɾað̞o]
The verdict
“desamparado” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,834 among 4,885 “D” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,834
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 4,885
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Que carece de protección o de amparo.
Corpus desk
Index ES-desamparado · desamparado · Spanish
desamparado · rank #50,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,834
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,885
- PHOTO-FINISH desalmados
Nearest frequency peer: desalmados (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “desamparado”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- deferencia
deferencia
49,170 corpus weight
- degradada
degradada
49,169 corpus weight
- desalmados
desalmados
49,168 corpus weight
- desamparado
desamparado
49,167 corpus weight
- desayunado
desayunado
49,166 corpus weight
- descargados
descargados
49,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “desamparado” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | desamparado |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [d̪esãmpaˈɾað̞o] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #50,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “desamparado” en español
Rare enough to double-check
desamparado is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,834 among 4,885 “D” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [d̪esãmpaˈɾað̞o]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Que carece de protección o de amparo.".
desamparado doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is desamparado, spelled D-E-S-A-M-P-A-R-A-D-O.
Definition
- 1Que carece de protección o de amparo.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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